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Stamp Collecting: Fakes and Forgeries
- Fake and Fantasy Stamps of Vietnam
- An ongoing reference project by the Fake & Fantasy Group of the Society of Indo-China Philatelists. This site currently contains images and information about fake and genuine Vietcong, South Indo-China overprints and Fantasy Cancels of Indo-china. More material is being added continually and there are plans to publish some of the findings in handbook form.
- Fakes and Forgeries Purchased on eBay
- An ongoing reference project providing information about common U.S.stamps that have been altered and sold on eBay as 'rarities'.
- Forgeries of the Double-Eagle Overprint On The First Issues of Albania
- This article by W. J. Eckhardt first appeared in The American Philatelist, journal of the American Philatelic Association.
- Japanese Forgeries
- A useful guide to identifying forgeries of classic Japanese stamps.
- Princely States Report: Forgery File
- Back issues of the "Forgery File" column, dedicated to forgers and forgeries of Indian States stamps and coins.
- Stamp Forgery Guide
- About 150 selected postage stamp forgery links, together with recommended philatelic forgery literature.
- Stamps of the Suez Canal Company
- Private labels put out by the SCC in 1868 to pay for carrying letters through the Canal. They only lasted for a few months, but, presumably because of their rarity and relative crudity of design, were heavily forged. Find out how to tell the good guys from the bad.